20 Questions For... Heights


This week, we meet Welwyn Garden City's hardcore heroes Heights.

Find out which band member creates a liquid paste while he sleeps and who nibbles on belly button lint...

1) If your band were Prime Minister for the day what three things would you do?
We're all about political reform you know? So we'd turn the Houses Of Parliament into a sort of WWE set up, intro music, finishing moves, the lot.

Whoever is Heavyweight Champion is the Prime Minister. We've still got 2 things left to do... does buying beer and Jager on expenses count?

2) Which other Red Bull Bedroom Jam bands do you love and why?
Our hometown boys They Sink Ships, because we love pop punk singers with a secret metal life. Also, big fans of Conduit and Floods from the site.

3) As a band, what would be your karaoke number?
Anything by Snoop Dogg really, we've had plenty of practice in the van. Or, just give Hutton the Panic At The Disco back catalogue and he would run wild.

4) Which member of the band would make the best TV presenter, and what kind of show should they front?
Andrew Moulder could present any show that needs continuous running commentary, especially shows where he has to narrate boring everyday decisions like whether to use a petrol station toilet or something.

5) What were you called before you finally settled on your current band name, and why? Why did you ditch it?
In the Summer of 2009 whilst recording the EP (free download at weareheights.com haha) we all agreed on the name "To Climb These Heights", its something we thought best represented our sound before about a week before the release we dropped it to just "Heights". Think it was dropped amidst eating a KFC bucket, with no real reasoning except it felt right to have the shorter one word name.

6) Other than voting for you in RBBJ, what’s the best thing about your fans? What makes them unique?
They dont pay for our music... ZING!

7) Which band in the world would you most want to play a show with a why?
AC/DC, because it means we got through to the festival stage haha.

8) As a band, what one word do you all use far too much?
Naughty words

9) What one thing do you envy about another band that you wish you had?
Basically we envy any band that doesn't have a ginger drummer like Tom Hutton.

10) What one food and one drink could the whole band live off for a whole tour?
Ranga produces this weird paste during his sleep, its somewhere in between food and drink and is a genuine healthy substitute diet with very few side effects.

11) If you’re band were the A Team, who would be who?
We're the whitest band in the world, so it'd probably take all of our combined efforts to be Mr T.

12) If you could put on your own festival which 5 bands would play and who would headline? Where would it be and who would host it?
It would be us, The Saturdays (no explanation needed), Cheryl Cole (we hear she's single now?), Glassjaw and Iron Maiden headlining. At the Royal Albert Hall hosted by Alan Partridge.

13) Who in the band has the strangest talent and what is it? Note you may be ask ed to provide video evidence!
Hutton has the ability to answer any question put to him, with solid made up evidence to back his answer.

14) Who in the band has the worst habits? Feel free to name and shame.
Um, alot of filthy things take place in Queen Latifah's travels [We assume this is the name of their van?! - RBBJ].

Hutton likes to nibble on belly button lint, and Thom probably fills up 2 - 3 lucozade bottles of piss a day in the van.

15) What’s the best useless fact you know.
The only bird with a penis is the swan.

16) As a band, who are your heroes?
Biggie Smalls and Kurt Cobain

17) You’re stranded on a desert island, which member of your band do you eat first and why?
Definately Andrew Moulder, his nipples look like those fried egg sweets we all grew up on. So they'd definately be the first place we'd head..

18) Who in the band has the most embarrassing first gig? Name and shame please.
I dont think any of us had specific bad first gig... on our first tour Thom did jump off a stage and break his foot though. Then had to finish the last few shows sitting on a stool like something from Westlife.

19) Which of your songs has the most ludicrous title? What does it mean?
Again, not much for this, our songs normally end up with stupid working titles though and we end up calling them that for ages.

20) What’s your ultimate goal as a band?
To lay the smackdown.


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